Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah by Richard Burton mb-code 00369634 wearing spectacles

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View of the closing ceremony of the Great Exhibition of 1851

In mid July 1859

Henry VIII

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah by Richard Burton mb-code 00369634 wearing spectaclesFrontispiece to Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah by Richard Burton, 1855. Richard Francis Burton's (1821 1890) extensive travels included a journey to Mecca, which he made disguised as a Pathan. His account of the journey, which he made in 1851 1853, made him famous. He later undertook an expedition to locate the source of the Nile, with John Hanning Speke. He also translated the Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra into